My six-month old, Annaliese, just had her well check this morning and the pediatrician said that she's dropping both height and weight curves. She doesn't look thin at all. So, if both height and weight curves are dropping is that really awful? Weight percentiles: 30, 45, 54, 36, 16, 11. Height percentiles: 76, 73, 69, 58. We are switching pediatrician offices as we aren't happy with them but is this something to be super concerned about? We are very average height people so those first percentiles were surprising.

i wouldn't worry about it but i would mention it to the next pedi you go to. see what they think. my pedi always did the comparison chart and told me if they were within the correct weight for their height. she rarely ever said where they were percentage wise. we always got that info from the nutritionist and she would give suggestions for what to feed to bring weights up (or down for others) to keep the height weight in balance.

maybe they mis measured? i know i would get different measurements from the dr than i got from the nutritionist, and there was only a day or two between appts.make that appt with the other pedi and have her remeasured.

I wouldn't worry about the length percentiles since it's not a big drop and could be due to a measurement discrepancy. The weight I'd want to watch since she has crossed several percentile lines. Has she been sick frequently...even with little colds? She also may not have hit her 6m growth spurt yet. Have you started solids? How are her wet diapers?

All of my kids except Evangeline started out in the 50th %ile or bigger, but most of them ended up between the 5th and 10th%ile by 1yr. At 1yr they did do a cbc, stool sample, and sweat test which were all normal except ds had mildly low iron. Their ped said we could try adding in a can or two of pediasure per day but he didn't feel it was necessary and it was likely just genetics (dh and I are small people).

I think if she's still dropping percentiles by her 9m visit I'd be concerned, but not so much at this point. My guess is they would just recommend adding formula for extra calories.

My first dropped all the way to the third percentile for weight and was a voracious eater. She popped back up to around 50% at 15 months. My third had horrific GERD and once that was covered with medications gained fine. My second has always been big. Ugh, each is so different!

She has a wet diaper every time she nurses and we just started solids tonight. She actually has not yet been noticeably sick...maybe a slight runny nose once. She is incredibly happy and content, very verbal, working on sitting, been rolling both ways since before four months, starting to scoot forward now...maybe she does need more calories. Solids were not a hit tonight but since she has never had a bottle I can't really supplement that way (I don't get milk when I pump but have also never had to supplement).

I am really working to stay very hydrated and will add oats in the morning I think for me and her. I did lose 12 lbs during her fourth/fifth month and maybe that was not a good thing. I'm still up 18 lbs, though, so it wasn't a scary weight loss this time.

I think with such good wet diapers I wouldn't worry about milk supply. It sounds like her activity level has really increased and she probably needs some extra calories which will be met as she becomes more amenable towards solids. I think since she's not losing weight you have lots of time still (1.5lbs is a really good gain...I'm surprised it made such a difference in her %iles) . She's old enough that you could even start working with a cup rather than introducing her to bottles.

Considering she's so content and developing so well I don't think it's anything to worry about .

Thanks! I've been trying to get her to nurse more and she has zero interest. I just think that her genes are petite at this point. Solids day two were better but we're just talking only a teaspoon or so being eaten at this point.

It turns out that she is not interested in solids yet. After four days of continuing to push it all out with her tongue I stopped. She doesn't seem very interested so I'll try again later. The pediatrician is switched as of 12/29 so it will be interesting to see what this pediatrician says.

We saw our new pediatrician today. She is not at all concerned with her growth and thinks that the one measurement that I noticed might be off was a miss measurement. Developmentally there are no concerns at all. She also noticed that they never caught her up on Hep B (she didn't have one at birth).

She sounds okay to me.... her milestones sound on target which would be my only concern. I hate the percentile ratings. They compare your child to a national average of obese and a majority of formula fed children. My exclusively BF babies have 0 interest in baby food until 7-8 months (they have all been different at accepting). When my pedi says to introduce at 4-5 months I just laugh and nod my head "yeah okay".